Every city has its own rhythm, its own beat and character; none more so than Barcelona. To commemorate the 2016 European Science Fiction Convention being held in this historic city, NewCon Press invited many of Spain’s top SF and fantasy authors to join those from Britain, France, and Canada to write stories that cast the city in a whole new light. Original stories from the likes of multiple award-winning Elia Barceló (whose work has been translated into eighteen languages), and Spain’s mo...

Combining the atmosphere of Jess Walters’ Beautiful Ruins with the intriguing historical backstory of Christina Baker Kline’s The Orphan Train, Deborah Lawrenson’s mesmerizing novel transports readers to a sunny Portuguese town with a shadowy past—where two women, decades apart, are drawn into a dark game of truth and lies that still haunts the shifting sea marshes.Traveling to Faro, Portugal, journalist Joanna Millard hopes to escape an unsatisfying relationship ...

Jason Blue is a 1950s hard boiled detective out of San Francisco. He's hired to go down to pre-Castro, decadent Havana to find a rich American lost in the tropical turmoil of sex, drugs and politics. The result is nothing like anybody expected. Cynical, sexy and thrilling, Jason joins the ranks of world weary professionals like Sam Spade and Phillip Marlow, doing the job well, no matter the cost.

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.

This is a Mexican codex, one in a series of ten codexes from the Aztec empire which the are being published for the first time ever in digital form this year.They're hundreds of years old, and date from the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.Delight in them. Linger over the images.

Since Granta's inaugural list of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1983 - featuring Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes - the Best of Young issues have been some of the magazine's most influential. In 2010, Granta looked beyond the English-speaking world with Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. Now, with its first-ever issue fully translated from Portuguese in partnership with Granta em Português, the magazine continues its work of celebrati...

'Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals' suffering is something that each person must decide for themselves - as they must decide whether the taste of a steak justifies the death of a cow. But if we ignore the possibility that one does outweigh the other, we fall foul of the charge of self-deceit and incoherence in our dealings with animals.' Alexander Fiske-HarrisonIn a remarkable and controversial book Fiske-Harrison follo...

Once upon a time, the sword Tizona helps the warrior knight El Cid cut a swath through the Moors invading Spain. But El Cid doesn't know the great sword's secret: that it has a mind of its own and talks only to his beautiful wife, Jimena. Together, Tizona and Jimena help El Cid wage his battles, until a demon of war takes possession of his body and soul. When woman and blade unite, can they free the legendary hero from the demon's wicked clutches? Or will the shadow of the horrors of war o...

New travel writing at its best. This updated, revised Pilgrimage relives the pilgrim's journey, exploring its unique towns with affection and bite, including lovingly descriptions of pilgrims met along thé Way. The stories are written with a vibrant and passionate pen.Commentators say Pilgrimage is "beautiful poetic writing", wising "inspired métaphor", and written "to a breathless walking rhythm".The Peter Cowan Short Story Prize judge said of one 'Pilgrimage' story: it's "a...

Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba.As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away . . .

When Frida Kahlo married Diego Rivera, Diego was 42 years old, and 300 pounds; Frida was 22 years old,and just 98 pounds. Her mother did not approve of the union and did not attend the wedding ceremony. She said that Diego was too old, too fat and worse yet he was a Communist and an atheist. She described the marriage as "between an elephant and a dove." On one of Diego's frequent visits to the Kahlo home, Frida's father took Diego aside and said: "She is a devil". "I know" Diego replied. ...

New travel writing at its best. This updated, revised Pilgrimage relives the pilgrim's journey, exploring its unique towns with affection and bite, including lovingly descriptions of pilgrims met along thé Way. The stories are written with a vibrant and passionate pen.Commentators say Pilgrimage is "beautiful poetic writing", wising "inspired métaphor", and written "to a breathless walking rhythm".The Peter Cowan Short Story Prize judge said of one 'Pilgrimage' story: it's "a...